TRIPLE Deliverable: D2.2 Data Harvesting Best Practices Document for Data Providers

The TRIPLE project intends to address the challenges of the fragmented and heterogeneous landscape of Social Sciences and Humanities, hereafter SSH, research outputs’ dissemination by providing a single yet flexible architecture able to collect data from many sources. Enabling the data ingestion from different data models, the architecture relies itself on an ontology which ensures a better discoverability for SSH scholarly resources and their connection with projects and profiles. 

The proposed architecture aims at enabling both a broader collection of data, and a uniform quality level between these through the use of a single data model. In order to do so, the architecture distinguishes two main roles, the TRIPLE’s Aggregator, and the TRIPLE’s Provider. The Aggregator is the contact point between the Provider and TRIPLE, and takes charge of the mapping between its own data and the TRIPLE data model. This architecture thus ensures that the discovery platform will provide a large coverage of existing SSH scholarly resources, with Aggregators providing, where necessary, the useful support to its own Providers.

This document is intended as a beta version of the public document that will provide guidelines to the TRIPLE’s data providers. The final public guidelines will be a mix of this document and of the Data acquisition plan. Although the core of the guidelines is not expected to change significantly over time, it should be noted that as the GOTRIPLE platform evolves, adjustments and additions might be required to facilitate the data provision system described below.